Improvement in hanging brackets or shelves



A. 6. BROWN.

Hanging-Brackets or Shelves.

N0. 136,900f PatentedMarch18J873f WITNESSES INVENTDH AM.PIIO'ID-UTN06RAPIIIC 00. MY Q OA'BORA'ES PROCESS) UNITED. STATES ALBERT0. BROWN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HANGING BRACKETS OR SHELVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,900, dated March18, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT 0. BROWN, of Chicago, in the county of Cookand State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Hanging Brackets or Shelves, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description, which will enable others skilled in the art towhich my invention appertains to make and use the same, reference beinghad inso doing to the accompanying drawing forming a part of thisspecification, and in which Figure 1 represents a front elevation of myimproved hanging brackets or shelves.

Nature and Object of my Invention.

My invention relates to that class of brackets or shelves which aredesigned for the purpose of being hung upon the walls of dwellingrooms,or in public places, so as to afford a convenient place whereon toarrange books or various other articles; and it consists in a novelmanner of attaching the brackets or shelves to an extensionlattice-frame, and in providing the bracket with a slot, so that theywill be suspended at suitable distances from each other, and be capableof being compactly folded for convenience of transportation or for otherpurposes without being detached from the lattice-frame.

General Description.

In the drawing, A represents the lattice 0 O, for the purpose ofsupporting the shelves of the brackets. The bars 0 O are perforated uponone side of the braces D D and slotted upon the other side, the slotbeing such that the pins or pivots on one end of the lattice-frame willslide freely therein, and the head of the pins or pivots beingsufficiently large to overlap the bars 0 O when the pins or pivots arein the slots. The perforations in the other ends of the bars 0 O arealso smaller than the heads of the pins or pivots in that side of thelattice-frame, but sufficiently large to admit of said pins passingfreely through them. The slotted ends of the bars 0 O are theninterposed between the lattice-frame and the heads of the pins or pivotsin one side thereof, and the pins or pivots are passed through theperforations in the other end of said bars, and through the ends of thelattice-bars, and properly secured. By this means the brackets arefirmly attached to the lattice-frame, and the latter may be readilyfolded and extended without removing the brackets, the distancebetween'the brackets when the frame is extended being controlled by theposition occupied by the inner end of the slots.

Claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- The combination of a lattice extensionframe and the slotted brackets B, substantially as specified, and forthe purposes set forth.

. The foregoing specification signed by me this 29th day of September,A. D. 1871.

\ ALBERT 0. BROWN.

Witnesses:

N. O. GRIDLEY, I F. WARNER.

